I'm willing to bet it's not Duncan's, but I just wish we had a clearer time frame of:

1. The season 1 finale
2. Logan's hearing
3. Logan and Veronica break-up
4. Duncan and Meg break-up
5. Meg gets pregant
6. Duncan and Veronica get together
7. Bus crash
8. Present day

Without a time-frame, it makes it very difficult to even speculate. Did Meg have a fling with this Chris guy over the summer? Did she cheat on Duncan with him? (Which seems incredibly out of character, but after the rest of this season, who knows.) Or, if some of the nastier suggestions of the father are true, why was there no hint of anything like this going on previously?

I want to agree with you, but I think leaving a child that age, alone at home, never mind locked in a cubby, and all the notebooks (upon notebooks) of punishment-writing can't have a conclusion that lies outside the realm of abusive.

There's no question that it was. The question is what kind of abuse was going on in the home. Veronica would leap to the conclusion that if she caught one kind it must necessitate other kinds. But that's a huge jump.

ETA: I re-read my post and I meant that Meg's child is a product of abuse.

ETA: I re-read my post and I meant that Meg's child is a product of abuse.

Oh, I should have caught the word "product" there.

I'll agree that everyone's probably (?) had a chance to see the alternate ending by now, and we could stop white fonting. Just my two cents, of course.

Actually, having a bitch of a time getting the ending to play, here. Had to skip a bunch of posts. Trying to see if it's up somewhere else in some format I can get it to play in.

All right. Finally saw it. And uhm, I liked the aired-version better.

Based on what I've read here, I've decided to not even bother with the alternate ending. I sense it would irritate me.

I did, however, like this episode. The show has picked up a lot in the past few eps and I'm feeling better about the world of VM now.

'Tis a truth universally acknowledged that the UPN promo department is run by a pack of monkeys on crack.

Rob said it was Joel Silver's idea in his little UPN.com chat today.

Plus we find out her parents are psychotic freaks, which wasn't even hinted at previously.

Yes, it was. In "Like a Virgin":

MEG: First my dad wanted to sue the school or kill whoever posted that score and then he searched my room.
VERONICA: For what? Your porn stash?
MEG: [strangled laugh] No. There were these letters I got from a guy I met in Spain. He had a crush on me and wrote all this sexy stuff. Dad kind of flipped out. Told me I was acting just like Lizzie.

Not a psychotic freak, exactly, but the seed was planted from day one.

new opening scene is up at upn.com. really only one thing to say: huh.

watched the last two episodes today. never got the alternative - so I've decided it doesn't exsist.

mac/cassidy shipper 0 to 60 in under 15 seconds ....how did they do that?

weevil /logan fight - sooo good.

AH and CC scenen in the hotel - just lovely

vp set up - nice.

as for the rest - the idea of the alt. ending is interesting, but not intrigueing. VM - I'd like to see her jump to conclusions about Duncan and once it is figured out , I want it to be too late. they were a better couple apart.

new opening scene is up at upn.com. really only one thing to say: huh.

I second the "huh".

Guess that answers a bunch of questions.